🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church Byline Times' new findings cast doubts on Farage's claim of refusing to associate with extreme elements – @josiahmortimer.bsky.social reports

6 May 1940 | Betty Vredenburg, a Dutch Jewish girl, was born in Amsterdam to Abracham and Rachel. She was murdered in a gas chamber of the #Auschwitz camp on 21 May 1944.

Hertfordshire has long been one of the finest centres of historical research in the UK. This is a body blow to the entire historical profession in this country and to humanities education and research in general. This kind of destruction has to stop before we lose everything of value.

On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close

West Yorkshire prisoner given three-year minimum term still locked up 16 years on www.itv.com/news/calenda...

On SNJ Today: All about ARFID and why Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder is far more than just a fussy eater, but an eating disorder that needs to be taken seriously. By Dr Kim Collett www.specialneedsjungle.com/arfid-avoida... #arfid

Higher bills, NHS changes and your rights removed: Here's what Reform will really mean for you www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

I'm hiding this under a pic of Frank because obvs word count issues. Here's how to complain to the Electoral Commission about Reform's 'vote for us or you get concentration camps' bullshit. Details in the pic.

NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Someone tell Webster I want to propose a new word errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong

4 May 1935 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Evike Goldenberg, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

5 May 1881 | Jewish man, Meyer Dickman, was born in Russia. He emigrated to Norway. A merchant. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- ▶ The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

I wamt to do an Untitled History Pod episode on "Baron" von Trips. The absolute epitomé of the "gentleman racer". Once deliberately didn't overtake to let another racer win. It was their last race, and they got engine trouble near the line. Also hugely influential in the birth of go-karting.

On a day when mega-rich, privileged and safe, Zia Yusuf, pledges to shove asylum seekers in detention centres (in Green constituencies), before forcibly deporting them, this is a v important read. These grim people are frauds. Exploiting ignorance and racism for votes. But only to enrich themselves.

Vote Reform. Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you. It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.

Not even sure where to start with this. As well as totally deranged and obscene, it is just bizarre. These people are not just grim and menacing, but they are proper weirdos aren't they?

Ahhh interesting. I have noticed something that’s perhaps related in student essays. There’s just not a lot you can say because there’s not really an argument. Or there is but it’s so bland that you can’t tell which part of it they care about or should further develop. It’s just… a document.

2 May 1891 | A Polish man, Zygmunt Kołakowski, was born in Częstochowa. A clerk. In #Auschwitz from 23 May 1941. No. 15881 He perished in the camp on 2 August 1941. --- 📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

2 May 1941 | A Yugoslavian Jewish girl, Eva Friedman, was born in Kanjiža (today in Serbia). In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

After all, flattery is the most sincere form of imitation.

2 May 1938 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Benjamin Bloemendal, was born in Amsterdam. In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz with his mother Clara. They were murdered in a gas chamber together after the selection.

1 May 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Julika Remenyi, was born. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

1 May 1867 | A Czech Jew, Ludvík Federer, was born. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 26 October 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

This book keeps getting better. Heroine has just been presented by her parents with a thoroughbread horse. Must be because of the mother's pride in her.

This due to the introduction of a single point of contact phone line staffed by poorly trained people.

A main character, this 'ere author claims, is plotting to stage a coup de gras. To which I say, fat chance. 😄

1 May 1932 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Agnes Neuman, was born in Szombathely. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ WEBINAR: Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

1 May 1923 | A German Jew, Jakob Landsberg, was born in Leipzig. During the war he lived in Będzin. A furrier. Deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive. --- 🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/46ryjrT

I cannot overstate how completely insane this story is

Meanwhile that wartime crew that broke off from rehearsing their drag act to shoot down Jerry would like a word. Quite a forceful one.

30 April 1910 | Czech Jew, Josef Frank, was born in Prostějov. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He did not survive. --- The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/3MdIVUA

29 April 1913 | A Polish man, Ryszard Klimek, was born in Krakow. A university student. In #Auschwitz from 24 April 1942. No. 32520 Shot in the camp on 27 May 1942. --- ▶ Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: https://t.co/VBgDxkWLMa

29 April 1935 | A Dutch Jew, Jacques Zeldenrust, was born in Rijswijk. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 5 March 1944 in a transport of 732 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was among 477 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

He murdered Renee Nicole Good. Shot her three times and then called her a “f*cking b*tch”. Her last words? “It’s ok dude I’m not mad”. He got three days administrative leave before being transferred to another state. No punishment. No accountability. No justice.

On this day in 1912, a Czech Jewish man was born. On the 16 Oct 1941 he was deported to the Łódź Ghetto. He perished in the Shoah. His birth family including his father and six siblings perished in various locations in the Shoah. His wife survived. His name was Rudolf Eisner

29 April 1913 | A Polish man, Stanisław Szot, was born in Grabnowola. A bricklayer. In #Auschwitz from 30 June 1941 No. 17523 He perished in the camp on 31 October 1941. --- 📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

29 April 1889 | A French Jew, Adrien Gougenheim, was born in Metz. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 2 September 1943. Registered in the camp. He did not survive. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

29 April 1934 | Dutch Jewish girl, Lea Davids, was born in Groningen. She was transferred from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1944. She was deported to #Auschwitz from there on 4 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

29 April 1919 | Czech Jew, Jan Fuchs, was born in Ostrava. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He did not survive. --- The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/3MdIVUA

USAian author making a Regency C of E vicar's wife cross herself (three times, at that) in shock. Frankly, any shock would've been due to such a scandalously appalling demonstration of papistry by the helpmeet of a man of the cloth, 166 years before the 1662 Act of Uniformity was (mostly) repealed.

Couldn’t have something to do with Covid, could it?

On this day in 1942, a 29 year old Polish man perished in in Auschwitz after being incarcerated for 4 months and 17 days. Before being imprisoned he was an accountant. His name was Janusz Żak Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

On this day in 1874, a German Jewish man was born. He lived in Czechoslovakia. On the 3 Nov 1941 he was deported to the Łódź Ghetto with his wife. They both perished in the Shoah. His name was Alexander Cohn